The Paris climate accord is a largely symbolic gesture that even
supporters acknowledge lacks enforcement mechanisms and, even if
successful, will have a statistically insignificant impact on the
climate.

Reuters reports that U.S. carbon emissions will fall over the next decade â regardless of whether America remains in COP21 treaty.

Nevertheless,
the news that Trump is officially withdrawing America from the accord
has brought on a level of hyperbole that is almost ... anti-science in
its sheer disproportionately.

As of 6:31 PM, here are the 10 dumbest reactions to Trump's decision thus far.

10. Democratic super-donor Tom Steyer â who as an investor in many green-tech companies is anything but a disinterested party â thundered that Trump is "committing a traitorous act of war against the American people."

9.
John Kerry, one of the deal's leading negotiators, said Trump is not
helping the "forgotten Americans" he pledged to elevate, but instead
will give their kids asthma (perhaps as soon as this summer!).

8.
The ACLU, an organization ostensibly centered around civil rights,
offered the bizarre claim that leaving the Paris agreement is "a massive
step back for racial justice and an assault on communities of color
across the U.S."

7.
CNN's Fareed Zakaria upped the crazy a notch higher, told Jake Tapper
"this will be the day that the United States resigned as the leader of
the free world."

6.
Elon Musk, who runs three companies that all depend to some degree on
the idea that carbon dioxide will destroy planet Earth, said he takes
America's removal from this largely symbolic agreement so seriously that
he's going to make up the difference and stop crisscrossing the world
in a private jet. Just kidding, he just said he is resigning his symbolic post on a symbolic presidential council.

5.
Globalist stooge Barack Obama, breaking again with the tradition of erstwhile
presidents refraining from attacking their successors, channeled his
inner Miss Cleo, arguing he knows what the future holds,
and Trump's decision means America now "joins a handful of nations that
reject the future." (Obama's prophesy, for those wondering, foretells a
"low-carbon" world that showers wealth upon fellow believers.)

4.
MSNBC's Donny Deutsch, apparently seeking a compelling way to express
his philosophical differences with Trump, said the president "is a sociopath." Also, "very dangerous."

3. John Kerry â yes, he appears twice in this list â also released a lengthy statement
on Facebook, in which he made the utterly-lacking-in-perspective take
that Trump's decision "will rightly be remembered as one of the most
shameful any president has made." Really? Worse than FDR locking up
innocent Japanese Americans? Worse than President Adams outlawing
criticism of his government, and jailing his critics? Worse than JFK's
Bay of Pigs fiasco? Think before you Facebook, Mr. Kerry!

2.
Serial fabricator/MSNBC anchor Brian Williams intoned that "on a sunny
day in the Rose Garden," President Trump delivered a "dark speech," and
then approvingly quoted an Obama official who likened Trump to Hugo
Chavez.

1.
Apparently of the opinion that Kathy Griffin pretending to behead Trump
wasn't quite distasteful enough, an editorial cartoonist for the
Australian Financial Review, David Rowe, likened Trump leaving the Paris
agreement to ... beheading the entire planet.